Web Career Girl

This week has been full of mixed emotion for me. The great news is there’s not shortage of writing work to help earn me money. The bad news? No time to work on my own sites! Fortunately, though, I did get a few things done to report here. At least this new weekly feature is keeping me accountable (that and the supportive Niche Blogger forums!).

Week Up to Friday 10 July

Article Marketing: I’ve begun to submit more articles again simply because I’ve seen a real drop even in my small Adsense earnings lately. Unfortunately Ezine Articles is working through a backlog so they haven’t been approved yet. I still need to write another three articles to submit there, then submit one for each niche to Unique Article Wizard which is a great way of building backlinks. Hopefully I’ll see some results.

Improved Rankings: This week I have some good news. One of my pre-niche blogger sites has come up in the first three results of Google for its main keyword. Not bad considering it’s been going since August 2008 but I only started optimising it a little while ago!

Adsense Placement: I’m also trying to improve clicks by changing Adsense around. On the main page of one niche blog I added a big square block to the area below my title but above where my posts start. Since then I got more clicks than I normally do (could be a coincidence). I then did it to another site today, and again saw extra clicks (still could be a coincidence, too soon to tell).

I am hoping these methods will pay off, because my Adsense earnings for the week are just at £5.02 (that is a good week, though!) and I really want things to improve.

*I’m also working on other monetization methods, including reports, building my list, and hopefully soon – putting together my own products. Wish me luck!

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